Chapter 46 Rival The Great Lady

After the last 3 games being MVP Usman took the night of the day before facing Juventus to check how the national cups of the countries are going and the teams that would face each other in the Uefa Champions League

He started by looking at information about the Champions League draw

FC Porto vs Bayern Muchen

Montpellier vs Galastary

Man Blue vs Milan

Zenit x London

Juventus v Real Madrid

Spartak vs Paris St Germain

Manchester United vs Barcelona

Losc Lille v North London

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Who would say at least in the first round of the champions knockout and there are 4 giant dispute games in Man Blue x Milan, Juventus x Real, Manchester x Barcelona ...

I am very curious to know which of them will make it through to the next round and which will be eliminated

Well now I'll take a look at the cup tables in , let's see:

Italian Cup 2012-2013

semifinals

Lazio vs Inter

Sampdoria vs Napoli

Who would have thought if we passed the quarterfinals we'd get Napoli in , damn it

Now the FA Cup

They are still in the quarterfinals

London v North East London

West London White vs Man Blue

Merseyside v North London

West Midlands v North West London

Who knew Manchester United fell out of the cup in

now spain

They are already in the final and it will be Barcelona v Malaga

Real Madrid fell to Barcelona in the quarterfinals and Atletico fell to Sevilla

In France, Touluose managed to get through to the Eighth playing against Estac in luckily they made it

Netherlands ...

Well, I think it's time to sleep for tomorrow's game. We'll be playing against the team that won the most in the championship. I have to be well rested.

game day

Good people, as you know, we will be facing our rival, the 4th place in the classification, and as we lost at home today, we can't lose at all.

GK Avramov 25

CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB Rossettini 15 LB Agostini 31

DMF Conti 5 © CMF Nainggolan 4 Eriksson 16 AMF Cepellini 32

CF Pinilla 51 and Usman 10

and the banks

GK Agazzi 1 CB G. Perico 24 SB Camilleri 2 CMF Dessena 21 e Ekdal 20 AMF Cossu 7 CF Nenê 18 Sal 27

The Juventus team would come with

GK Buffon

CB Palmieri, Chiellini and Lucio

DMF Pirlo © CMF Isla and Vidal RMF Giovinco LMF Pepe

SS Ianquinta CF Vucinic

The game starts with the ball being played to Pirlo who receives it and passes it to Isla, as it was the beginning of the game they gave weak passes not expecting Usman to shoot towards the ball and intercept Pirlo's pass and take the ball against his goal

Usman dominated the ball and drove but ended up letting it escape and the ball stopped at the foot of Chiellini who touched it to Buffon

Buffon threw the ball towards the center of the field to Vucinic who headed the ball back and the ball stopped at Usman's foot who touched Pinilla

Pinilla tried to enter the area driving and ended up losing the ball to Lucio who takes the ball and kicks it to Ianquinta , but the ball stops at the foot of Rossetini who touches Nainggollan who receives it and passes it to Usman

Usman tries to think of a way to overcome the defense that made the barrier at the entrance to the area and manages to find an opening to touch Pinilla, but Pinilla is unable to reach the ball and finish it with Palmieri taking the ball out of the area with a kick

The ball stops at Conti's foot, who takes it forward and touches Usman, Usman, who has two passes blocked, finishes the ball on goal from outside the area, the ball goes up and scrapes the crossbar on the outside

Buffon restarts the game with a kick to the center of the midfield and the Juventus team disputes the ball with Cagliari over there until Ianquinta tries to touch Pepe and the ball goes out the side, returning the ball to Cagliari who starts the attack touching Nainggolan playing for Pinilla

Pinilla dominated and tried to find a way to play for Usman, Usman receives a pass and tries to dribble Lucio and enter the area but he is stopped in the dribble and the ball goes backwards where he returns to catch it, after that he tries to make a pass to Nainggolan but the ball is blocked by Lucio, but this time Lucio takes the ball and throws it to Vucinic in the air and the ball is headed by Ariaudo to the side

Juventus charges the side and manages to enter the area but the ball is removed by Cagliari and the ball continues to be disputed in Cagliari's field until Usman fails in a dominated and the ball is left to Iaquinta who takes it and tries to finish in the goal of outside the area it goes diagonally past the left side of the goal

Avramov puts the ball in play again kicking it forward and Eriksson , Usman and Isla are the ones who dispute the ball in the air . Ianquinta was already offside due to offside

After the free kick, the Cagliari team manages one last attack before the end of the 1st half

The second half started with Usman touching Eriksson and receiving the ball back, but when he received the ball back he lost it to Pirlo who managed to touch Vucinic

Vucinic receives a lead and sees Iaquinta in front alone and throws him in front, but Iaquinta was already offside as soon as the pass came out

The game restarts and Cagliari goes from pass to short pass with Conti touching Pinilla and Pinilla touching Cepellini

Cepellini dominates and risks from outside the area but the ball hits Lucio and goes to the foot of Agostini who receives the rest of the ball and crosses into the area, where Naigolan who is alone finishes with a volley the ball goes diagonally to the left and hits on the crossbar and goes to the foot of Pirlo who positioned himself to remove the rebound

Pirlo dominates and takes it out of his area with a kick forward Vucinic disputes the ball in the air with Asrtori and loses making the ball go to Usman who returned to the center of the field to receive

The Cagliari team continues to attack with Usman receiving the passes and the Juventus team starts to get more violent in taking the ball from Usman using melee strikes and kicks to the legs without the referee seeing

The team even manages to make a play where Pinilla receives it from Eriksson and throws it to Usman , but Usman gets too ahead and the play becomes invalid , with the play being impeded in the 65th minute Ivo takes Usman and puts on Sal

The Juventus team comes out with a quick attack with a pass from Pirlo to Pepe who tries to cross into the area, but the ball hits the defense and Pepe receives it back and sends the ball back to Pirlo who finishes from outside the area, the ball goes to the corner of the goal with a tremendous force and effect as the goalkeeper blocks the ball, hitting it for a corner

The corner kick is taken and does not cause danger causing the Cagliari team to take the ball and start their attack against Juventus , they manage to reach the front of the area with Sal who finishes in the goal from outside the area even

The game restarts with Buffon touching Vidal with a Chutão and the ball goes to Pepe's foot on the right side, Vidal goes towards Pepe and they create plays on that side until he manages to cross in the area

The ball stops at the foot of the Cagliari defenders who manage to remove the ball from within their area, making the Juuventyus team maintain a full attack in the last minutes of the second half and the Cagliari team focusing only on defense

The referee blows the whistle at the end of the game and the Cagliari team has mixed feelings they didn't lose and they didn't win their rematch against Juventus and even so the Cagliari team remained in the 3rd position of the championship table

1° Inter 76 Pts 24 Win 4 Draw 1 Lose 57 Goals Made 16 Goals Conceded

2nd Milan 60 Pts 18 Win 6 Draw 5 Lose 47 Goals Scored 23 Goals Taken

3° Cagliari Calcio 57 Pts 16 Win 9 Draw 4 Lose 42 Goals Scored 26 Goals Taken

4° Juventus 56 Pts 16 Win 8 Draw 5 Lose 43 Goals Made 18 Goals Conceded

5° Lazio 54 Pts 16 Win 6 Draw 7 Lose 46 Goals Made 33 Goals Conceded

6° Genoa 50 Pts 15 Win 5 Draw 9 Lose 38 Goals Scored 30 Goals Taken

7° Roma 50 Pts 14 Win 8 Draw 7 Lose 45 Goals Scored 38 Goals Taken

8° Napoli 43 Pts 12 Win 7 Draw 10 Lose 35 Goals Made 31 Goals Taken

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